The average
American woman today wears between a size 16 and 18, up from the previous standard dress size of 14, according to a new study.
In the large Catholic families of my childhood, most girls had changed more diapers and spooned more Gerber's and done more baby - sitting by the age of 19 than the average
American woman today ever will.
JaneDow, It is refreshing to see your comments coming from
an American woman today.
Most
American women today are hostile toward men.
And it's about this conviction I have that this feeling — this widespread, choking cocktail of guilt and anxiety and resentment and regret — is poisoning motherhood for
American women today» (Warner, 2005, p. 4).
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Not exact matches
She cites the fact that
women are 57 % of
today's college graduates, as well as the 4 million copies of Lean In sold, as indicators of how there have been major changes in terms of how
women are perceived in
American society.
Stats from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say that
American men born
today can expect to live 76.5 years, on average, and
American women 81.3.
Today American Bridge's
Women's Rights Initiative released groundbreaking polling results on how the #MeToo movement and reproductive freedom are driving historic voter enthusiasm and political engagement.
Today in some
American cities,
women are earning large salaries, running their own businesses and handling their mortgages with ease.
According to the Institute for
American Values, the number of marriages per 1000 unmarried
women age fifteen and older has shrunk from 76.5 in 1970 to 36
today.
Today 1,100
women elders have been appointed in North
American congregations, and the practice has spread to other divisions, especially in Europe and Australia.
Today, tens of thousands of religious organizations, and tens of millions of
Americans, continue to believe and teach that the proper understanding of marriage is a union of one man and one
woman.
Yet the basic social and cultural patterns that
today condemn men and
women to death, in accordance with the wishes of 65 per cent of the
American public, remain in some ways remarkably unchanged from ancient times.
American women religious
today still seem not to have discovered what it is that might assuage their longings, and the seriously ill social ecology of their lives is very much in danger of permanent demise.»
Most of the major civic institutions in
American communities
today — like the Boy Scouts, the Red Cross, the League of
Women Voters, the NAACP, the Urban League, the Knights of Columbus, Rotary, Kiwanis, the Lions Club — were created in this period.
The rationalization of southern baptists is truly mind boggling — the idea that each church is «autonomous» as justification for outright racism is pitiful in this day and age — if the Southern Baptist convention had come out strongly and adamantly against this kind of behavior, I'd have at least a measure of respect for them — but to shrug off a blatant act of discrimination as the «work of the devil» and ignore the deacon's cowardice in wanting to avoid «controversy» is laughable — if it weren't for people having the courage to fan the flames of controversy,
women and african
american would not have the right to vote
today — more evidence of the ignorance of most bible thumpers, and Mississippi in particular
And given the inroads into
American family life, including the fact that 40 percent of births these days are to unmarried
women, it is doubtful that if the amendment were up for ratification
today, a new Phyllis Schlafly would be able to find many of those apple - pie - baking Middle -
American housewives to staff her battalions.
Tough, smart, fearlessly outspoken, and possessed of an uncanny gift for strategically mobilizing her Middle
American supporters (overwhelmingly
women, those housewives from Peoria), she not only beat back the seemingly unstoppable ERA but played a key role in securing the presidential nominations of Barry Goldwater in 1964 and Ronald Reagan in 1980, paving the way for
today's Bush presidency and Republican dominance of Congress and statehouses across the country.
Today, only half of
Americans 18 and over are married and the age of people entering their first marriage has reached an all - time high among men and
women.
Today, abortion remains legal while a series of national stories involving police brutality against African
American men and
women have revealed to many another layer of inequality within the
American criminal justice system.
Although these represent small percentages, given that about 70 million
Americans qualify as churched adult
women, this amounts to millions of
women in the U.S.
today who feel discouraged by their experiences in churches.»
Helen served as co-editor and contributor of Growing Healthy Asian -
American Churches (IVP, 2006) and has written numerous articles for publications such as Christianity
Today, Leadership Journal, and
Today's Christian
Woman.
Today's inauguration itself also put that creed into practice, featuring a black president, a white vice-president, a gay poet, a Hispanic female justice, a Cuban -
American priest, and the first
woman to ever deliver an inaugural prayer: civil rights icon Myrlie Evers - Williams.
Americans of his era, he wrote, understood neither
woman nor sex and therefore sentimentalized both — an observation that remains true of us
today, I think, though now we are no longer sentimental.
Today, in support of the National Heart Month and the upcoming
American Heart Association's Go Red for
Women «Wear Red Day» (Feb 7th), I got to share some of my favorite lean beef breakfast recipes on the Great Day San Antonio show.
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In response to «Fructose - Rich Beverages and Risk of Gout in
Women,» a study published online
today in the Journal of the
American Medical Association, Dr. Richard Adamson, former director, Division of Cancer Etiology and scientific director, National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health; former vice president of Scientific and Technical Affairs for the
American Beverage Association; current president of TPN Associates, LLC, and consultant to the
American Beverage Association, said:
Today is also the kickoff of
American Heart Month in support of the
American Heart Association's #GoRedForWomen campaign to end heart disease and stroke in
women through education, exercise and diet.
The University of Connecticut and its
women's soccer program would like to apologize for an inappropriate gesture a UConn student - athlete made to an ESPNU camera following
today's
American Athletic Conference championship game.
There are also exhibits exploring the roles
women and African -
Americans have played, and an exhibit titled «
Today's Game» that features lockers of each MLB team with recent artifacts.
The
American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) shared just
today what I think is their first policy statement specific to homebirth, and as one would anticipate, they concur «with the recent statement of the
American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists affirming that hospitals and birthing centers are the safest settings for birth in the United States while respecting the right of
women to make a medically informed decision about delivery» (2013, 1016, abstract).
Every year since 1983 no fewer than one in five
American women has given birth via major abdominal surgery.22, 34
Today one in four or 25 % of
women have a cesarean for the birth of their baby.22 The rate for first - time mothers may approach one in three.9 Studies show that the cesarean rate could safely be halved.11 The World Health Organization recommends no more than a 15 % cesarean rate.34 With a million
women having cesarean sections every year, this means that 400,000 to 500,000 of them were unnecessary.No evidence supports the idea that cesareans are as safe as vaginal birth for mother or baby.
In fact, Lisa Maatz of the
American Association of University
Women told USA
Today that, to be accurate, moms» Equal Pay Day is really on June 4.
Most
American breastfeeding
women beginning solids at 6 months experience 6 - 12 months of amenorrhea (lack of periods), but much longer is not at all uncommon, even
today.
Dr. Kass is a sought - after expert for the media, with patients traveling from all across North America and Europe, and has been quoted in several major newspaper and magazine publications including Time Magazine, USA
Today, The New York Times, The Daily News,
Woman's World,
American Baby, E-Pregnancy Magazine, Parents and Parenting Magazines and has also been featured in Keeping Kids Healthy, a PBS TV documentary.
Pantley has been quoted, and her books featured in many publications such as Parents, Parenting,
American Baby,
Woman's Day, Good Housekeeping, Huntington Post, Good Morning America, Nickelodeon, Bump, Education.com, Mother & Baby,
Today's Parent, ParentsAsk, iVillage, Babble.com, Care.com, Practical Parenting, Canadian Family, Kids in the House, and several thousand other print and website publications.
It's hard for parents
today to appreciate what it was like for
American women who wanted to breastfeed in the 1940s and «50s.
Whereas, sixty - nine years later and three years before the 19th Amendment was ratified,
women in New York won that right on Election Day, November 6, 1917; to commemorate this important heritage, the New York State Women's Suffrage 100th Anniversary Commemoration Commission was established to increase education and awareness through a statewide discussion about the lasting legacy of women's suffrage and how it continues to shape American democracy today
women in New York won that right on Election Day, November 6, 1917; to commemorate this important heritage, the New York State
Women's Suffrage 100th Anniversary Commemoration Commission was established to increase education and awareness through a statewide discussion about the lasting legacy of women's suffrage and how it continues to shape American democracy today
Women's Suffrage 100th Anniversary Commemoration Commission was established to increase education and awareness through a statewide discussion about the lasting legacy of
women's suffrage and how it continues to shape American democracy today
women's suffrage and how it continues to shape
American democracy
today; and
«Labor Day is a day we celebrate the great
American work ethic and those hardworking men and
women who struggled to provide us with workers» rights and deliver us
today's landmarks of middle class security, including the 40 - hour work week, child labor laws, pensions, a minimum wage, Social Security and Medicare.
Currently the Constitution states that it is counted by all men and
women aged 18 or older, aside from untaxed Native
Americans (according to the Native
American Rights Fund, all Native
Americans today pay federal income taxes, thus they would be counted).
«The veterans that are with us here
today and the thousands of servicemen and
women fighting throughout the world deserve for us to make every effort to ensure that the
American flag is proudly displayed at public universities and colleges.»
Today, membership in Gold Star Mothers is open to any
American woman who has lost a son or daughter in service to the United States.
In 1960, two thirds of
American women in their early 20s were already married;
today the figure is less than a quarter.
Postmenopausal
women who reached menopause at an earlier age or who never gave birth are at a higher risk for heart failure, according to research published
today in the Journal of the
American College of Cardiology.
Overall, 75 percent think discrimination against
women has decreased over the past 25 years or so, but at the same time an equal number of
Americans say discrimination continues to be an issue
today for many
women.
Reporting
today in the Journal of the
American Medical Association, a team of scientists from the
Women's Health Initiative Memory Study (WHIMS), a subset of the larger Women's Health Initiative, report that Prempro provides no boost to cognition or protection against dementia in women 65 years of age and o
Women's Health Initiative Memory Study (WHIMS), a subset of the larger
Women's Health Initiative, report that Prempro provides no boost to cognition or protection against dementia in women 65 years of age and o
Women's Health Initiative, report that Prempro provides no boost to cognition or protection against dementia in
women 65 years of age and o
women 65 years of age and older.
Taking care of grandkids one day a week helps keep grandmothers mentally sharp, finds a study from the
Women's Healthy Aging Project study in Australia, published online
today in Menopause, the journal of The North
American Menopause Society (NAMS).
Wright knows of what she speaks: she was the first African -
American woman to dive with Alvin, and
today she is still the only African -
American female full professor at OSU.
Presented in Indianapolis
today at the 246th National Meeting & Exposition of the
American Chemical Society (ACS), it found that providing more information to
women and older people could increase the effectiveness of e-waste disposal bans and recycling programs.